What to eat on Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Zongzi: Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and long. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty. ?

2. Realgar wine: The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River basin. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "

3. Huang Wu: Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the custom of eating "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, Monopterus albus, duck egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is poisonous, so they all drink ordinary rice wine instead of realgar wine). There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people call it May and Yellow Moon.

4. Caking: Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Koreans in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved with a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere. ?

5. Deep-fried piles: In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "deep-fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is to make a thick paste with ingredients such as flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, with continuous rain. After eating "fried piles" on Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped. People say that the sky has been mended.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival